This Week In the BMJ The ethics of semen retrieval remain controversial BMJ 1998; 317 :f (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Management of back pain should vary with length of episode BMJ 1998; 317 :e (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Clinicians must always exclude child abuse in cases of subdural haemorrhage BMJ 1998; 317 :c (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Factors from before conception, labour, and delivery are linked with newborn encephalopathy BMJ 1998; 317 :b (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Contacting experts can help with systematic review BMJ 1998; 317 :d (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Editorials Neonatal encephalopathies BMJ 1998; 317 :1537 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Subdural haemorrhages in infants BMJ 1998; 317 :1538 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Responses Regulation of doctors and the Bristol inquiry BMJ 1998; 317 :1539 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Responses The end of the heparin pump? BMJ 1998; 317 :1540 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Responses Clinical futures BMJ 1998; 317 :1542 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission LettersDownload PDF Effect of adding selegiline to levodopa in early, mild Parkinson's disease BMJ 1998; 317 :1586 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Anaesthetists consume 3% of trust expenditure but affect 60% of trust income BMJ 1998; 317 :1587 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Extrapolation of trial results suggests that aspirin is useful in intermittent claudication BMJ 1998; 317 :1587 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Doctors are ethically obliged to advise patients to quit smoking BMJ 1998; 317 :1588 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Responses Preventing headache after lumbar puncture BMJ 1998; 317 :1588 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Trial of mammography in women under 50 is ethical BMJ 1998; 317 :1589 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Fraud BMJ 1998; 317 :1590 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Calcium channel blockers: Is the jury still out? 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317 :1604 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Editor's Choice Looking after infants BMJ 1998; 317 :a (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Looking after infants BMJ 1998; 317 :0 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Papers Antepartum risk factors for newborn encephalopathy: the Western Australian case-control study BMJ 1998; 317 :1549 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Responses Intrapartum risk factors for newborn encephalopathy: the Western Australian case-control study BMJ 1998; 317 :1554 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Responses Subdural haemorrhages in infants: population based study BMJ 1998; 317 :1558 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Responses Review of the usefulness of contacting other experts when conducting a literature search for systematic reviews BMJ 1998; 317 :1562 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Responses Anaphylaxis induced by gabexate mesylate BMJ 1998; 317 :1563 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission General Practice Community survey of factors associated with consultation for low back pain BMJ 1998; 317 :1564 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Education and debate Bristol again(Very) short service on the Bristol inquiry BMJ 1998; 317 :1577 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission The Wisheart affair: responses to DunnThe Bristol cardiac disasterEditor's response to Stephen BolsinA patient's perspective BMJ 1998; 317 :1579 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Responses Retrieving semen from a dead patientUtilitarianism in the absence of definitive guidelinesThe patient was assaultedSome ethical concerns were ignoredAn ethic of ambivalence BMJ 1998; 317 :1583 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Responses MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST Medicopolitical digestDrug companies face new controlsTreatment of NHS staff variesHealthy lifestyle will improve bone healthBMA loses challenge to new criteria for consultant status BMJ 1998; 317 :1598 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission MEDICINE AND MULTIMEDIA MASH: An Army Surgeon in Korea BMJ 1998; 317 :1599 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Where's the Evidence? 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BMJ 1998; 317 :1563 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Orifices BMJ 1998; 317 :1563 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Never fully examined BMJ 1998; 317 :1567 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Muscling in BMJ 1998; 317 :1582 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Corrections Obituary BMJ 1998; 317 :1561 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Secondary prevention in acute myocardial infarction BMJ 1998; 317 :1561 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Mammography and the politics of randomised controlled trials BMJ 1998; 317 :1561 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Odds ratios should be avoided when events are common BMJ 1998; 317 :1595 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission Systematic review of trials comparing antibiotic with placebo for acute cough in adults BMJ 1998; 317 :1595 (Published 05 December 1998) Permission ObituaryDownload PDF ObituariesCharles George DrakeDavid FergusonStanley FergusonBasil Herbert (“Bunny”) GoodrichThomas Adesanya Ige GrilloUrsula HickmanMalik Laki KassamColin Henry Rylands KnowlesColin William MorleyWilliam Wallace ParkNigel David Bentley PrestonkKarel Styblo BMJ 1998; 317 :1596 (Published 05 December 1998) PDF Permission Back to top PreviousNext